Lars Eighner's On Dumpster Diving

Education is an incredibly vital tool that is used in the contemporary world to succeed, it can be defined as “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university,” according to the Oxford English Dictionary. However, ‘especially’ does not mean ‘always,’ and therein lies the answer of what education really is. It is not common that we recognize the ‘especially,’ many of the population view education simply as what is learned during our schooling, in all honesty, education is- in the simplest of explanations- knowing what to do and when to do it in a given situation. True, we learn how to apply our knowledge to maths problems and biology experiments in school, in doing so applying our education, but it is in the real world we have truly received the education that we shall utilize for the rest of our lives.
Eighner claims he has “no special knowledge” and that he has “been wrong before” with his assumptions on what he deems safe, but consider that he learned how to live off of the scraps people would not toss to their pets. That is something that no school would ever teach, schools are much too hyperfocused on ensuring their students pass their standardized tests and know how to meld into